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 FROM
BERRY EVERITT
With just a few months left until the kickoff,
it's time to start thinking beyond the actual soccer that will be
played in the 2010 World Cup, and getting excited about the enormous
economic benefits all South Africans stand to receive from the event.
In addition, we all need to address the question of how we can improve
our service levels - no matter what sector of the economy we operate
in - so that we all contribute to SA being recognized as a really
great host nation.
The most immediate benefit of the World Cup, of
course, will be the injection of billions of rands of soccer tourist
money into the economy next winter. The organisers expect around
450 000 overseas visitors to arrive for the tournament and their
total spend is expected to easily top R7bn - and that's in addition
to the billions that have already been spent on stadia and the upgrading
of our transport and basic services infrastructure.
Longer term, the major effect is expected to be
a permanent increase in tourism as a result of the global exposure
SA will receive during the tournament. The Soccer World Cup is definitely
the most-watched sporting event in the world, as evidenced by the
fact that the 2006 event in Germany attracted a cumulative 5,9bn
TV viewers in 54 countries, compared to the 4,7bn people who watched
all or part of the Beijing Olympics last year.
As a result of that exposure, Berlin's tourism
figures have since doubled - and it definitely does not have the
attractions of our nine host cities, especially those on the coast,
which are going to be on TV screens all over the world for a whole
month next year
And an increase in tourism will of course mean
job creation - at an estimated rate of one permanent job for every
12 tourists - which will come on top of the 400 000 new jobs already
created in the run-up to the tournament, and profoundly change the
lives of many ordinary South Africans for the better.
Which, of course, this is where the real and growing
benefits of the Soccer World Cup will lie for our property market
- for a long time after the soccer tourists have gone home.
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